It’s onerous to consider 2005 was 20 years in the past.

I keep in mind 2005. I keep in mind seeing Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith on the massive display screen. I might inform you the place within the theater I sat when I noticed Peter Jackson’s King Kong. I might identify all the locations the place I watched Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins. (Wait, Batman started 20 years in the past?!? Oof. I really feel sufficiently old proper now to star in a really dangerous manufacturing of Batman Ends.)

The years have been form to these three 2005 motion pictures and plenty of others; Steven Spielberg’s Struggle of the Worlds is now considered certainly one of cinema’s greatest 9/11 allegories, Oldboy helped put a world highlight on the superb photos being made in South Korea throughout that point, and cultists have taken up Keanu Reeves’ Constantine as the nice unsung comic-book film of its period. Even just a few of the yr’s flops have gone down in historical past (or perhaps in infamy). Folks nonetheless speak about Cameron Crowe’s Elizabethtown, if just for its function in serving to encourage the time period “manic pixie dream lady” to explain characters like Kirsten Dunst’s heroine love curiosity in that movie.

However 20 years is greater than sufficient time for many of the motion pictures launched in 2005 — together with some actually good ones — to begin to fade into obscurity. So let’s attempt to reverse that development. Beneath I’ve collected 12 of my favourite 2005 movies which can be in actual hazard of being completely forgotten within the years forward. Should you’ve by no means seen them, search them out. Should you’ve seen them earlier than, right here’s your reminder that you simply is likely to be due for a revisit. In any case, it’s been 20 years.

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